Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Firefly Automatix Inc. has 3 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are spread across 3 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution suggests a broader technical scope within the mechanical systems field compared to more concentrated portfolios. The 3 pending office actions represent the current active workload for the company's patent strategy.
The busiest examiner, BROWN, CLAUDE J, is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since there are 3 pending office actions and 3 distinct examiners, each examiner is handling exactly one matter. This even distribution across 3 distinct examiners means that no single examiner has a disproportionate impact on the portfolio's overall progress.
The involvement of 2 distinct art units for the 3 pending office actions indicates that the company's technology spans multiple specialized examination groups. Practitioners must navigate the different standards and prior art databases used by these 2 art units. Coordinating the prosecution of 3 pending office actions across 2 distinct art units requires attention to the specific requirements of each group.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (100%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| RUNCO, MADELINE IVY | 1 | 77.8% | +8.4% |
| HUTCHINS, CATHLEEN R | 1 | 83.8% | +8.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18356098 | MOWER CUTTING UNIT HAVING BLADES AND LIFTING DEVICES | HUTCHINS, CATHLEEN R | 8d overdue |
| 18588398 | MOWER DECK WITH SUSPENSION | RUNCO, MADELINE IVY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3671 | 1 |
| 3672 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18588398 | MOWER DECK WITH SUSPENSION | RUNCO, MADELINE IVY | 3671 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2024 |
| 18356098 | MOWER CUTTING UNIT HAVING BLADES AND LIFTING DEVICES | HUTCHINS, CATHLEEN R | 3672 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 8d overdue | Pending | Jul 20, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialFirefly Automatix Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Madeline Ivy Runco has the most, with 1 of Firefly Automatix Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
